Happy New Year to all

Just before the hols I was tinkering with the new SOAP features in VFP7.0,
(usng examples from xmethods.com etc., and was suitably impressed.)
I then had a go myself with a class i created a while back and everything worked fine until i called the .wsdl file i had created. It returned the exact same error as Sanjay Patel had in the thread dated 23/12/01:

"OLE error code 0x800a13be: Unknown COM Status Code"

After extensive searching on MSDN i gave up and decided to take a step back and to test the dll on its own. To make this particular class work a table name was passed, but even though the name was passed suscessfully when i tried to carry out a simple vfp function on the table ie. recno(), the dll returned an:

"Alias not found" error.

I have since had a go connecting to the data with ADO but that too is not working. So here is my point, and i have a point:
Does the data need to be scoped to the DLL?
When using ADO, can i point the data source to free tables?
Are there any useful articles on creating DLL's in Vfp?
Where can i find reference to the above OLE error?

Many thanks for all your help,
Best Regards
Paul